Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California last week, Buchanan demonstrated that quality at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. He sauntered onstage, took a gulp of beer, then stepped forward with his Fender Telecaster guitar. The youthful audience welcomed him with screams and cheers. For the next two hours, Buchanan and his three sidemen played to constant outbursts from the crowd: "Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad...
...brightly-lit scrim which changed color from scene to scene: red, green, blue. Stage lights turned the air to a tinged blue haze which echoed with the disembodied voices of actors and laughter and applause. Every so often an actor dashed through the greenroom, grabbing a throat lozenge or gulp of water along the way. "We have a pretty good audience" Douglas Hughes breathed in mid-dash. Upstairs, Dorothy Weaver, the producer, watched from the top row of the balcony. She anticipated every light cue by anxiously looking up seconds before it was scheduled to go on. She unconsciously willed...
...opening ceremonies were fairly innocuous, sometimes stirring but mostly boring. The contingents of athletes marched in wearing their hotdog winter stretchsuits littered with racing stripes. The mayor of Sapporo, Japan, where the 1972 Winter Olympics were held, downed a gulp of brandy with the "jolly burgomeister" of Innsbruck And then there were all those panning camera shots of Olympic flags and scenic valley vistas, and above all, whitecapped mountains, gray mountains, jagged mountains piercing blue skies. The next day, ABC said that 30 people had been hospitalized for bruises and broken bones suffered in the crush of people...
...they do elsewhere. Here is one having a snack: "Tugarin Zmeevich, Son of the Dragon, put one loaf of bread in one cheek, another in the other cheek, and then he put a whole swan on his tongue, pushed it in with a pancake and swallowed everything in one gulp...
...Cabinet, Carla Hills took command of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the third woman to serve in the Cabinet (after F.D.R.'s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Dwight Eisenhower's HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby...